SAS Visual Business Analytics Professional Certificate

Launch Your Career with a SAS® Credential. Master the skills required for the SAS® Visual Business Analyst Certification

Instructor: Nicole Ball

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5 course series

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Beginner level

No prior experience required

1 month

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

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5 course series

Earn a career credential that demonstrates your expertise

4.7

(982 reviews)

Beginner level

No prior experience required

1 month

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

How to explore data using SAS Visual Analytics
How to create interactive reports using SAS Visual Analytics
How to prepare data using SAS Data Studio

Skills you'll gain

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Professional Certificate - 5 course series

Using SAS Visual Analytics, you will learn to access and manipulate data, analyze data with a variety of interactive reports and graphics, and design and share dashboards to visualize your data. SAS Visual Analytics is a useful skill in a variety of careers, including business analyst, researcher, statistician, or data scientist.

The Macquarie Business School at Macquarie University is proud to partner with global analytics leader SAS in offering SAS Certification as part of their Global MBA program. The Global MBA SAS Partnership includes the opportunity for professionals certified through the SAS Certified Specialist: Visual Business Analyst program to gain credit when studying for Macquarie University’s Global MBA through the Generate Insights unit. Find out more about the benefits of the partnership here!

Applied Learning Project

Through the SAS Visual Business Analytics Professional Certificate, you get access to hands-on projects that are built into the course work of each course. Examples of projects include Visual Analytics Methodology, Designing Reports with SAS Visual Analytics Review, Restructuring Data for Forecasting Review, and Using Parameters to Create Advanced Reports Review.

Getting Started with SAS Visual Analytics

Course 15 hours

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: SAS (Software)

Category: Data Quality

Category: Exploratory Data Analysis

Category: Data Access

Category: Data Cleansing

Category: Data Manipulation

Category: Business Reporting

Category: Data Analysis

Category: Statistical Programming

Category: Data Visualization

Category: Virtual Environment

Category: Business Analysis

Data Analysis and Reporting in SAS Visual Analytics

Course 28 hours

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Visualization Software

Category: SAS (Software)

Category: Data Analysis

Category: Data Manipulation

Category: Data Visualization

Category: Exploratory Data Analysis

Category: Interactive Data Visualization

Category: Data Presentation

Category: Business Reporting

Category: Time Series Analysis and Forecasting

Category: Graphing

Category: Statistical Programming

Category: Trend Analysis

Using Data for Geographic Mapping and Forecasting in SAS Visual Analytics

Course 35 hours

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Transformation

Category: SAS (Software)

Category: Forecasting

Category: Time Series Analysis and Forecasting

Category: Statistical Programming

Category: Spatial Data Analysis

Category: Predictive Analytics

Category: Data Manipulation

Category: Data-Driven Decision-Making

Category: Geographic Information Systems

Category: Data Analysis

Category: Data Visualization Software

Category: Geospatial Mapping

Performing Network, Path, and Text Analyses in SAS Visual Analytics

Course 44 hours

What you'll learn

To describe the data structure needed for network analysis, path analysis, and text analytics.
How to create network analysis to analyze relationship between entities in SAS Visual Analytics.
How to create path analysis to understand frequent paths in SAS Visual Analytics.
How to create text analytics to analyze unstructured text in SAS Visual Analytics.

Skills you'll gain

Category: SAS (Software)

Category: Data Analysis

Category: Text Mining

Category: Network Analysis

Category: Data Transformation

Category: Data Manipulation

Category: Statistical Programming

Category: Spatial Analysis

Category: Data Visualization

Category: Business Analytics

Creating Advanced Reports with SAS Visual Analytics

Course 58 hours

What you'll learn

How to create advanced data items (like calculated items and aggregated measures) in SAS Visual Analytics.
How to create advanced static and interactive filters and advanced ranks in SAS Visual Analytics.
How to create and apply parameters to make reports more dynamic in SAS Visual Analytics.

Skills you'll gain

Category: SAS (Software)

Category: Business Intelligence Software

Category: Ad Hoc Reporting

Category: Data Visualization Software

Category: Data Analysis

Category: Statistical Programming

Category: Interactive Data Visualization

Category: Dashboard

Category: Business Reporting

Category: Business Metrics

Category: Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

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Frequently asked questions

It takes approximately 7 weeks to complete this professional certificate.

No SAS experience or programming experience is required, although you should have basic computer experience.

Yes, the courses should be taken in this order:

Getting Stared with SAS Visual Analytics
Data Analysis and Reporting in SAS Visual Analytics
Using Data for Geographic Mapping and Forecasting in SAS Visual Analytics
Performing Network, Path, and Text Analyses in SAS Visual Analytics
Creating Advanced Reports with SAS Visual Analytics

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